New case of Nuclear waste
by kjazz on 27 December 2001 @ 08:40 AM
hello
my name is khalid iam from saudi arabia .
i joind the green peace recentlly ....
this is second time to post here at greenpeace .
this article is about israel and how it is killing not only pepole but fishes and marine life .
reports by the saudi marine agency and the african marine control reported that traces of nuclear waste had been found in the red sea .
israel is the only country that has borders at the red sea and owns nuclear plants and nuclear wepons .
i dont know really what to do thats why i came here to the greenpeace to try and find way to stop it .
sorry for the mestakes in the spelling cuz iam really not that good in english .
thanks
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Khalil, I'm from the U.S and Israel is our prodigal son. So, if they're dumping nuclear waste then they are following our pattern of BAD habits. Your spelling is much better than I would do in Arabic. But Israel is not the only country killing people, for war is the plague of Humanity. Remember, what the Jews call "The Temple Mount"; The muslims call "The Noble Sanctuary". I honor the deceased King Hussein of Jordan by quoting him, this holy place is "Under the sovereignty of One God". Participate with Greenpeace, they will help you. Concerned with you, Harbinger Texas,U.S.
Welcome! We have seen few posters from Saudi Arabia here.
While I'm not qualified to comment on the emissions you mention, it's also true that Israel has ripped olive trees out of the ground simply because they were "owned" by Palestinians, is very active in DNA and robotics research that may have military applications, and has nuclear weapons according to credible reports. So I don't doubt that emissions are happening and not being reported for political reasons. Perhaps it is reasonable to rely on people outside Israel to gather some such reports.
For instance on the activities of Israeli Professor Ehud Shapiro, who "envisions DNA computers as a “molecular computing device that can operate initially in a test tube and eventually inside an organism and interact with its biochemical environment." It would be good to know if he had military contracts. http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org//t/s/983036012/990262972/index_html
However, Greenpeace in general does not want to become a vehicle for inter-human conflict, e.g. Arab-Israeli conflict. While the problems with Israeli military and commercial activity may be unique in your region, and while we may agree that the high-tech economy and military of Israel represents to a degree a greater threat to its neighbors such as Saudi Arabia, than less developed economies nearby, it is just as easy to say that continued Saudi oil production constitutes the world's greatest warming threat. So I hope you will understand if Greenpeace members try not to get involved between nations. It will always backfire. No nation is an ecological paragon nor villain. Each has unique problems, yes, and we would hope that members would concentrate on those problems that they can do the most about, e.g. in their own countries. It would be perhaps useful to focus on nuclear issues as a way to build up Greenpeace support in Saudi Arabia initially,which might have government support, but eventually it would become necessary to look also at the impact of the oil industry, which might not. I doubt that members motivated by a desire to control Israel would be useful against the oil barons...
That said, no Greenpeace member is obligated to participate in all Greenpeace campaigns, and we all have reasons for supporting one campaign more than another. So your perspective is very welcome. Certainly there are problems that are unique to your region due to the conflict with Israel and that country's culture, and we should not be inhibited from discussing how that impacts ecological issues.
Put on the New Year from the end of last year, Some Japanese newspaper and television's news ware reported that same Japanese electric power company was decided postponed the use of the MOX fuel for several years.
For example, by ASAHI SHINBUN (newspaper). Kansai Electric cancels MOX orders, Kansai Electric Power Co. decided Wednesday to cancel orders for mixed oxide fuel (MOX) from a French company due to fears it would fail stricter fuel checks. New government controls introduced in July last year were considered too strict for the fuel, which was intended for use in the company's plants,
And NHK.TV reported that Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, decided that they dont have on load MOX nuclear fuel to atomic power plantn in either Kashiwazaki and Fukushima for several years.
By GREENPEACE opposed to MOX fuel manufacture, transport and on load to the reactor since meny year`s action behavior wear made further strict to change at standard for safety of the Japanese Government? .
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham is touring the Yucca Mountain site (7th-8th Jan' 2002) 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the only site proposed as a permanent repository for America's nuclear waste. What he will see is geologic testing to determine if the site is safe enough to store 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste.
The waste from nuclear weapons production and from the operation of 103 nuclear power plants would be transported to Yucca Mountain at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site from its current storage locations in 43 states. Nevada itself has no nuclear reactors.
Nevada elected officials from all levels of government joined anti-nuclear activists at the federal building in downtown Las Vegas yesterday morning to protest the use of Yucca Mountain as the USA's nuclear dump.
In late 1987, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act singled out Yucca Mountain, Nevada as the only site to be characterized for development as a repository.
Other governors are eager to move the radioactive waste in their states into Nevada, particularly after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Vermont Governor Howard Dean wrote to Secretary Abraham on September 20, "I would also stress that last week's terrorist action makes it imperative that the federal government live up to its commitment to store spent fuel at a national facility." The attitude of this Vermont Governer, stinks of a general American(read US) attitude, of superiority. This is a classic example of shove the dirt under the carpet, and much better if it happens to be somebody else's carpet.
A range of citizens groups object to Yucca Mountain on environmental grounds. Kalynda Tilges of Citizen Alert, a Las Vegas based organization which has taken the lead in this campaign, says her group works with the Sierra Club and with Friends of Nevada Wilderness to educate the public about the dangers of burying nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain - even in concrete and steel canisters.
The negative aspects of this proposed site are :
-- What makes the mountain unsafe is that there's a lot of seismic activity in that area. There's a lot of volcanic cones out there and the DOE has state they have no idea if there's even magma under Yucca Mountain. There's 15 faults that run through the mountain, and they're already shown that water travels through the mountain very, very fast. It's not nearly as dry as they thought it was.
-- Water travelling through Yucca Mountain would allow radioactivity to escape from the repository. It means superheated steam with corrosive minerals in there that will eat right through the canisters and expose the waste into the heat and into the rock. And the department of Energy still doesn't know how this is all going to react together.
-- If a volcano does erupt and blows these casks open, you've got dispersal through the air and into the ground water. This repository is right over the Amargosa aquifer which waters the Amargosa Valley, one of the largest farming areas in our state, producing over 25 percent of Nevada's milk.
More information about the Yucca Mountain Project can be found online at: http://www.ymp.gov
Well, Khalid, seems that not a single person on this site dares to say words of indictament against Israel. Be certain that more and more people in Europe are seeing Israel as a villain and the pressure against our governments for helping militarist Israeli regime is mounting. However we can try and make international pressure against Israel. Let us know if they have a department of ecology, or any other department that should take responsability over nuclear waste in Red Sea. For a start we could let them know that we know their dirty secret. Then we could make this information public and make UN and EU react. Our American collegues may try campaigning in USA and we might have something in our hands. Or not, but at least we will know we gave it a shot.
Please do inform us of any further developments and problems in your region,
Bovine (EU)
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